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Recently winning first place in a Skyscapers and SuperSkyscapers Competition, SURE Architecture has put forth a daring new proposition for a London skyscraper design. Their proposal, titled "The Endless City in Height," does away with the traditional notion of stacking floors on top of each other. Rather, this innovative design incorporates two street-sized ramps that wind their way up the exterior of the tower, creating extensions of the city streetscape that rise and coil vertically into the London skyline.

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• Architects

  Gustavo Penna

• Location

  Praça Central - Paranoá, Brasilia - Federal District, Brazil

• Design Team

  Alexandre Bragança, Augustin de Tugny, Fernando Arruda Guillen, Norberto Bambozzi

• Trainees

  Alessandra Valadares, Carolina Soares, Luiza Martini, Paulo Menicucci, Priscila Dias de Araújo, Roberta Vasconcellos

• Total Area

  42.000m 2

• Area

  7000.0 sqm

• Project Year

  2000

• Photographs

  Casa Digital

• Location

  Praça Central - Paranoá, Brasilia - Federal District, Brazil

• Project Year

  2000

• Photographs

  Casa Digital

• Area

  7000.0 m2

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Foster + Partners has revealed designs for the headquarters of RMK, one of the world's leading copper producers based in Yekaterinburg, Russia. The 13-story building is designed to complement the company's working style, splitting office spaces into two-story modular units which provide comfortable and flexible work spaces.

The facade of the building features triangular panels of bronze-colored steel, a motif that is inspired by the color and chemical structure of copper. These steel panels also express the modular offices within the building, with each ten by six-meter panel corresponding to a single office module, and regulate the building's temperature by shading the building in the summer but admitting winter sunshine.

Read on after the break for more on the design

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